Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> "Daniel L. Rall" wrote:
> >
> > I suggest put the Collections in the gnu package, but provding wrappers
> > for
> > the com.sun package that just delegate to the gnu package. I realize
> > that
> > they overhead is kind of gross, but don't we really want people still
> > using
> > 1.1 to import gnu.classpath.collections.* instead?
>
> Well, I think that the goal of the Classpath project is to provide the
> greatest possible interoperability with Sun's Java. Say I've already
> downloaded program X which uses the classes in com.sun, so I downloaded
> those classes from Sun. Then I download program Y which imports those
> same classes from gnu.classpath.collections. So now I have to download
> yet another package of the SAME classes. It's bad enough that
> programmers have two different locations to find the collections classes
> in (remember the com.sun.java.swing debacle?)... I'd suggest avoiding
> adding a third.
Might as well not provide them separately at all (I do see your point
though).
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